Sarah Howard
Sarah Howard (nee Tackett) has dedicated her career to supporting the T1D community ever since she was diagnosed with T1D while in college in May 2013. Since then, she has worked for various diabetes organizations, focusing on research, advocacy, and community-building efforts for people with T1D and their loved ones. Sarah is currently the Senior Marketing Manager at T1D Exchange.
Sarah and her husband live in NYC with their cat Gracie. In her spare time, she enjoys doing comedy, taking dance classes, visiting art museums, and exploring different neighborhoods in NYC.
Over my past 50+ years with T1D diabetes so much has changed. I can’t imagine going back to urine testing for sugar.
My wife and I have settled on a Banting type living style. We enjoy meat, butter, other fats, vegetables and nuts that grow above the ground.
Moving to CGM maybe two years ago, has revolutionised living. I’m free to walk most days slowly learning what extra fat is needed for the various energy level demands different walk require.
Life is good!
My usual breakfast before I head to work is a (gluten free) bagel with cream cheese and a cup of black tea with milk and sugar. I’ve seen several nutritionists over the last five years and one of them recommended that I incorporate more protein into my diet, especially at breakfast. But, when I experimented with (plant based) breakfasts higher in protein, I found a) I didn’t like most of them very much and b) my morning/lunchtime blood sugar levels became much more volatile. With the bagel, my blood sugar usually spikes shortly afterwards but then gradually falls back to target and is usually in range at lunch. I can work with that. I don’t like worrying about low blood sugars while at work. I do I like consistency. And I like bagels.
Protein. W/o it I have reactions at various times thru the morning.
For the last 30 or so years I’ve eaten the same breakfast. (Unless we go to the dinner all bets are off.)
One slice of eighter Rye bread or Rye/Pumpernickel bread, along with Natural Peanut Butter and Sugar Frees Jelly.
Total carbs are 24.
I tend to start most days with eggs, fruit and coffee or at meal with nuts and fruit on top and coffee. On occasion I’ll have 1/2 an English muffin or a slice of toast with the eggs.
I’ve eat the same breakfast daily, gluten free because of Celiac disease.
1 and 1/3 cup of Multigrain Cheerios, mixed with Corn Chex
Blueberries, sometimes blackberries, strawberries, or raspberries, but always blueberries.
Approx. 1 cup of Eggbeaters (sometimes mixed with cooked vegetables), cooked in the microwave. (This protein is needed to keep my blood sugar from dropping too quickly.)
Low carb and high protein
I usually do not eat breakfast, but have fruit and veggies for lunch most days.
I have two basic breakfasts
1.) 5oz fat free Fage plain yogurt with slivered almonds and blueberries
2.) 1tsp chia seeds , 1 tbs crunchy peanut butter, cinnamon and hot water to make chia pudding
I like to “fast” until at least 11am (big fan of intermittent fasting) and then start the day with a meal that is fruit + fat. So apple and cheese OR grapes and cashews OR apple and peanuts OR strawberries and nuts!
Don’t eat breakfast. Lunch and dinner are low carb high protein.
Usually toast with PB if home. A lot of days I don’t have breakfast though because I’m not usually hungry when I get up
Keto OMAD or TMAD
Unfortunately the things that work for my gastroparesis are kind of the opposite of what’s recommended for diabetes. Breakfast is almost always 2 slices of white bread, toasted with butter, and a cup of tea with milk. Anything more complex than that and I end up nauseated for most of the day; anything less, and I’m grumpy and hangry!
Toast (either white or wheat) with peanut butter.
If I am exercising, 1/2 peanut butter sandwich. If I’m not exercising that day, just hot tea
I’ll usually eat some yogurt or cheese when I get to my desk in the morning.
Oatmeal with crushed walnuts, blueberries, strawberries, cinnamon, keifer, almond milk.
I strive to follow the Mastering Diabetes program (with very good results 🤞) so I have a big salad with fruit(usually blue, black and/or raspberries, apple, peach/pear, clementine, banana, kiwi), beans, hemp/ flax seed. I sprinkle on cinnamon, ginger, cacao and cardamom powder.
One slice o toast with multi grain bread and some fruit, usually berries.
fasting
Raisin bread with farmer’s cheese 40 carbs
Keto yogurt with a little keto granola.
On weekdays I fast till 3 pm(ish), then have a high protein snack and dinner later. I try not to eat past 6 or 7 pm. Weekends are a little less stringent but still low carb.
On a good day, such as this morning, yogurt – preferably Greek – and fruit. If that isn’t possible, then a single piece of toast with a little bit of peanut butter and jelly.
On weekends, eggs with a slice of baguette and bacon. (oh bacon, I can’t quit you!) But only after chasing the persistent overnight high/dawn phenomenon down. Weekdays are usually just coffee. (As I’m still chasing down the overnight high and more than coffee just makes managing too challenging – especially when combined with the added work stress sugar bump up that usually hits me around 8:30 in the office.) Just started the Omni 5 and hoping this may make breakfast during workdays a reality again. So far, overnight sugars have been MUCH better. Fingers crossed this is the new trend.
String cheese so that my meds don’t destroy my stomach.
for morning meal, plain fat free greek yogurt sweetened with just stevia. Fresh blueberries, banana, or other fresh fruit I have on hand, topped with a sprinkle of Bob’s red mill muesli and sf chocolate sauce. Next fav is eggs, bacon and a multigrain protien powder pancake.
2 eggs whites only hard boiled oatmeal with 1 equal and cinnamon and half grapefruit with equal weekdays weekends anything goes
I haven’t eaten breakfast in many years, the first may be 12:00 & or 18:00 hrs …. all depends on days activities what is served. Things are much different now than 70 yrs ago !!
I’ve become insulin resistant. I like to vary my breakfast but most regularly I eat Greek yogurt with some kind of berry. Yesterday I had a spinach omelette. Some days I have a soft boiled egg and fruit.
Toast with peanut butter
Whole wheat sourdough toast with 100% peanut butter and topped with berries. I am not a big breakfast eater in general but on weekends I might have eggs and toast instead.
Breakfast varies. Eggo waffles. Oatmeal with raisins, walnuts and sprinkles. Muffins. Pain au chocolat et framboise ou amande.
Since I’ve mostly been working from home the last couple of years I don’t often eat breakfast but when I do it usually is a piece of toasted sourdough wheat toast with peanut butter and a mug of coffee, gotta have the coffee.
#BeWell
My usual breakfast is hot cereal with a mix of whole grains (like oatmeal and barley flakes), dried fruits (like apples and dates) and chopped almonds with milk. I under-bolus so the carbs power me through my cardio workout and the rest of the day until dinner. If I can’t workout for some reason, a nonfat latte is my fallback.
I follow my wife’s old adage, “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a queen, and dinner like a pauper.”
And in a very king-like fashion and since I am retired, I do it most mornings in a very leisurely 3 or 4 fashion. The best breakfasts, by far, are those you have with delightful conversationalists with people of wide-ranging interests.
I start with 2 or 3 cups of strong, dark-roast black coffee, nursed liked an expensive cocktail rather than gulped. Then come berries—raspberries, black berries, blue berries, and a complete box of strawberries, followed by protein potions of turkey peperoni slices or an egg or two. The cereal consumed is a mix of three-Uncle Sam’s mixed with Grape Nuts mixed with All Bran. Either milk or yogurt is used to top the cereal.
I know not the calories, but the carbs I can count down to the first decimal point. And decidedly, the meal’s main attributes are the time spent and the conversations.
As always, your responses just delight me!!
The morning starts with a nice fairtrade/organic double espresso coffee with coconut sugar.
My breakfasts are usually quite consistent from day to day with slight variance in the protein and fats.
Pumpkin seed butter, chia blueberry jam with grass fed butter on 2 toasted chia super grains naturally fermented bread. This is followed by a hand full of either blackberries, raspberries, blue berries or Strawberries all of which are organic especially the strawberries last but not least some coconut Kefir. The switch up in all of this as mentioned would be protein which would be free range eggs or free range Turkey breast slices.
So the total net carbs equates to approximately 38grams +/- 8 grams
Total fibre equals 16 to 18grams
So all in all my insulin requirements hover around 3 units +/- depending on my sugar level at the time of eating and my exercise routine from the day before.
Hope that makes sense. Cheers……
I prefer 15 carbs for my first meal. Usually a piece of bread with eggs. Just personal preference as I seem to be more sensitive to carbs in the morning.
A two egg omelette with cheese is my preferred breakfast.
During the week, I tend to hold off on eating breakfast until about 2-3 hours after I wake up. However, I do start every morning with coffee and cream, which does cause a spike if I don’t bolus properly. Once I do get hungry, I usually eat some variation of an egg bake/egg bite(s), which is very low carb and tends to sit well with me.
My first meal of the day is usually my lunch. This is due to me having gastroparesis. Whenever I eat breakfast I normally end up vomiting it back up.
My lunch often consists of a sandwich … often with a side salad.
Eggs toast and herbal tea
eggs and baco.n
My breakfast alternates between chia seed/ oatmeal mix with berries and walnuts; Greek yougurt with berries and nuts; eggs with a veggie patty, fruit and maybe veggies, too! All these meals include a homemade low carb muffin and coffee. Sundays I will make low carb almond flour pancakes and fruit. I’m usually out walking 60-90 minutes later if there is any spike , more likely from the yougurt.
I figure 20-23 carbs. My bolus is usually 2-3 units for these meals, depending on where my BG is upon getting up!
Peanut butter with dry Cherrios and a veggie /protein smoothie. Rise about 20 points and levels out.
I don’t vary….every day I have the very same amount of steel cut oatmeal….mixed WITH….spinach. Delicious!
Coffee, more coffee, maybe eggs or sausage
Wholr grain toast with a dab of honey and a big dollop of almond butter, plus coffee.
Honey doesn’t run your BS up?
Coffee with cream and then yogurt or cottage cheese with fruit and nuts added. I eat my eggs and bacon/ sausage/avocado for lunch.
1.Hard boiled eggs, avocado toast preferably with no grain bread I make, but not always
2.yogurt, no grain granola, and berries
These are my best and favorite breakfasts but I do a lot of different things
Eggs, greek yogurt work really well for me in the morning with berries!
Protein shake with some added seeds.
I’m pretty much a low carb, high protein kinda guy that loves deserts. We raise our own poultry & pork. I typically have one of 4 breakfasts: 1) coffee either black or w cream 2) Eggs or omelet w cheese & low carb veggies 3) Costco keto (nut) granola w watered down cream instead of milk 4) Quest protein cookie or Legendary Foods Protein roll. Lunch: Mixed Green Veggie salad w some meat & cheese protein or dinner leftovers. Dinner: a variety of meats with low carb veggies. Some of our favorites are Indian butter chicken, thai curry chicken, smoked pork or ground chicken tacos (i use romaine lettuce or hero brand tortillas, burgers on homemade low carb buns, kebabs on the grill, smoked ribs. Snacks: Cheese sticks, Pili Nuts, Perfect Keto bars, handful of almonds, salami. Deserts: Dark chocolate (70% or higher cocoa content), Rebel Ice Creams RULE, Low carb cookies (hikey or homemade)
1 slice white bread(toasted) with peanut butter.
My first meal of the day is lunch so I have a half a sandwich, chips and blueberries.
Eggs, fruit, black tea
Just a cup of black coffee and a homemade egg McMuffin
raw carrots and hummus, because my morning BG is usually high and tends to rise on my way to work. this meal haw a low GI.
Coffee and one piece of whole wheat bread (12 carbs) with shredded cheese broiled in oven.
I’ve been eating Pure Protein bars, the lemon flavor. They have 20 g of protein and only 16 g of carbs.
I would prefer to eat steak and apple pie, but I don’t.
2 eggs with cheese and a slice of toast
90% of the time the foods I eat for breakfast is a measured coffee cup full of dry cereal, milk [regular], 1 banana [organic], 1 cup of coffee [per day] with 1 pkg of hot chocolate.
Pretty much every morning I have a small container of cottage cheese with a small scoop of ground flaz seed either pecans or almonds and blueberries sometimes a small piece of banana all topped with some cinnamon. If I eat something else ita a hard boiled egg with about a 1/4 cup of squished avocado and some grape tomatoes.
flax seed, sorry about the spelling errors
Gluten free toast w organic peanut butter, black coffee
Fruit and protein
I try to eat foods in the morning with more protein and “healthy fats” to sustain me through lunch and prevent a steep climb in glucose.
Eggs, whole grains, avocado, whole fruit, sometimes sausages or some cheese too in moderation. Coffee with 1/2&1/2 okay too.
Weekends I like home made, non-dairy, fruit smoothies. No issue w/ the high glycemic nature of this meal as I use inhaled TI with the fastest peak of ANY insulin.
usual 38 gms of carb: 2 piece of toast (low carb and fruit, Peanut butter. or 1 egg, I fruit, 1 toast and maybe 1 biscotti, or greek yogurt, toast with PB and fruit.
2 proteins helps keep my blood sugar in best range till lunch.
Lately, I have a banana and milk for breakfast.
Coffee with 0 sugar creamer
I eat a power crunch protein bar, coffee with Splenda. That is it almost every day.
High fiber, lower carb with protein works best for me. I try to keep my carbs to a max of 30gm per meal most of the time. Plain Greek yogurt with fresh fruit, chia seeds, or ground flax seeds added for fiber. veggie omelet with 1 whole grain piece of toast, fruit is also good.
Breakfast foods are all so awful! If I eat breakfast, it’s (2) boiled eggs and a piece of toast.
Greek yogurt, frozen blueberries and flax seed. I make it as a shake.
eggs
Typically as banana or breakfast sandwich
I have a container of chocolate Premier Protein and a cup of decaf coffee with 2 scoops of vital proteins collagen peptides. It holds me till lunch.
I bake my own keto muffins and usually just have one with my morning coffee. On occasion, I will fix a fried egg sandwich on thin 5-grain bakery bread from Publix.
I eat primarily low carb. But I treat myself in the morning with half English muffin with cream cheese
Hello, I’ve been a T1D for 43 yrs and I run a 5K every day for my personal health. I like to start my day with eggs, bacon, turkey ham, vegetables, a piece of whole wheat toast and coffee with milk. That works for me!!!!! Thank you.
Coffee (though it raises blood sugar) whole grained bread, cheese or plain yogurt, berries or 1/2 banana
2 Good yogurt and a coffee with a bit of milk
Sunday – 3 egg omelette with either bacon spicy links
Monday – Saturday – English muffin with butter OR
half a bagel with cream cheese (and sometimes lox)
I typically eat an English muffin with peanut butter for breakfast.
Eggs, coffee with milk and berries
Protein drink
I only eat breakfast if I am hungry in the morning. Weekdays it’s usually a peanut butter sandwich or a banana. Sometimes on the weekend I splurge with cinnamon toast. I like to toast a croissant in the toaster oven for that.
I generally don’t eat breakfast so my first meal is a sandwich. I’m a plant-based eater so my diet is 75% carbs, 10% protein, and 15% fat. Because I choose to eat this way, I use less insulin.
Routinely: Coffee black or a splash of half &half. Cottage cheese, raw nuts, and berries or a protein bar. Sometimes low carb waffle thrown in the mix. Other “fun” days: whatever feels right
My usual breakfast is an orange, 3/4 cup of plain yogurt and 15 gm of carb, either a pancake, piece of toast or half a home made muffin.
Coffee with fat free 1/2 and 1/2 1st thing covered with way more insulin than the carbs would say. 2 hrs approximately after I get up, I have greek yogurt with berries and a couple of T of high fiber cereal and 1T granola, walnuts and chia seeds. Keeps me full until lunch and fuels my am workout – skiing, spinning, hiking.
My day doesn’t start without coffee, 2 cups with 1/2 & 1/2. Chobani Greek or Zero Sugar yogurt with 1/4 cup fresh berries (in season), either 1 biscotti, 1/2 bagel or sm. slice of challah or sourdough toast. Rarely eat any lunch. Now limit potassium because of CKD.
Muesli or porridge.
2 cups of coffee with 1t 1/2 and 1/2 when I 1st get up, then 2 hours later before my workout, I eat greek yogurt with berries, walnuts, chia seeds, lime juice and a bit of stevia. Keeps me fueled with not too many carbs.
Low carb cheese bagels, rice krispes, healthy oatmeal
I’m not a big breakfast person. But if I’m going to eat at this time of day it’s either something like Belgium waffles, sausage, bacon, or some type of egg dish. If it’s cold out it’s steel cut oatmeal.
I start with black coffee, the caffeine raises my BG so it’s an automatic 5 CHO bolus. I frequently have an egg white omelet with cheese and any left over vegetables, sometimes bacon and over easy eggs, and before a long run or hike whole grain bread (1 slice) with peanut butter. I usually also eat a cupful of black or red raspberries. I try to keep it low CHO unless it’s an exercise packed day.
As an intermittent faster my body is ready for a nice input at about 10 a.m. It allows my body to get up and running and eliminates the insulin resistance we suffer from first thing in the morning. That being said Yogurt, celery and peanut butter, and sum chia seed pudding set me up for the rest of a successful day.
I like one half slice of cranberry, nut bread from Costco, or banana nut bread.
I start the day with a Chobani drink. It tastes good, comes in 3 flavors & has 20 gm of protein, 18 carb & it is a good beginning to start the day.
I eat pretty much the same thing every morning b/c I know how my body responds to it. Protein: bacon or sausage, hard boiled egg, 1/2 banana and 1/2 English Muffin. Coffee too!
An egg, half a slice of toast, and iced coffee.
I have a low carb green smoothie every morning, and some dark chocolate!
My smoothie has unsweetened nut milk/water base, a few cups of mixed greens, a couple spoonfuls of fresh papaya, and half a cup of frozen blueberries. I add a tablespoon of almond butter, hemp protein powder, spirulina, maca, and blend.
I also have a few squares of my favorite dark chocolate.
This keeps my blood sugar pretty consistent throughout the morning, and I feel like I’ve started my day with a very healthy beginning!
Pretty much the same thing every day: one slice Ezekiel sesame bread, 2 Tbsp fresh ground peanut butter, and enough fresh fruit (a couple strawberries and a few blackberries) to add up to 30 grams carbs. Plus coffee (1/4 part real, 3/4 part decaf).
Peanut butter and banana sandwich on diet bread for 20 years. Can’t say it works because it produces a high high followed by a low low, but you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, I guess.
Reading these comments, I need to see if caffeine raises my BG.
I have to take one unit for a cup of coffee because it throws everything off can go away high but it’s not consistent as is everything with T1D
In the winter, I like a cup of hot tea. I found with my pump, I don’t really have to eat anything, although if I have to yogurt or a banana works for me.
Coffee with cream and an Instant Breakfast made with oat milk.
Usually a carb, a fruit (another carb) and protein in the form of yogurt, cheese or slice of deli ham.
In the constant quest to put on weight AND keep his carb count low, my DH makes himself three scrambled eggs with 2 Tbsp heavy cream and a 300 calorie pot of Benecalorie mixed in, two slices of SF bacon, 1/2 an avocado, 2 Tbsp salsa, about 3 strawberries, and a black coffee
Equal amounts of protein and carbs. About 15 grams toast and egg, yogurt, toast with cheese melted, 1/2 sandwich with meat and veggies, a protein pancake with fruit and sausage.
I start with a coffee and take one unit of insulin otherwise my blood will go sky high
Every day, unless I go out for scrambled eggs and toast, I have:
1/3 cup of Quaker Old Fashioned oats mixed with 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1-2 tbsp. chia seeds, 1/3 cup Fage 0% Greek yogurt, 1/3 cup water, and blueberries or strawberries to equal approx. 24 grams of carbs. I microwave on high for 2 minutes, 40 seconds. Very filling. Some days I have coffee with half and half mid-way between breakfast and lunch.
I’m not very hungry when I wake up so my breakfast is usually cinnamon toast and coffee. I use store bought cinnamon and sugar mix which has only 4 g carbs per tsp. Usually I don’t have a spike, but sometimes spikes happen.
multi-grain toast, eggs; yogurt/cottage cheese and berries
Oatmeal and banana and ground walnuts
With natural “cream on the top “ yogurt
Cereal
I don’t eat breakfast.
Either steel cut oats with cinnamon or scrambled eggs with rye toast, tomato and a couple of slices of crispy bacon
cinnamon
I see what you are doing 🙂
I used to drink a protein “shake” but now have to eat more plant-based due to kidney issues.
Oatmeal or dark chocolate nuts bar (kind bar out Costco nut bar) work well for me.
The constant are eggs and mushrooms. Into the omelette I usually add some protein, for example bacon, salami, speck or chicken. I always train before breakfast. Depending on the training intensity and bg level, I add carbohydrates as required. This could be over-night oats or a couple of crackers with honey. At breakfast I try to get 30g of protein, 25g of fat and 10-30g carbs.
My breakfast lately has been 1 scoop of Chocolate Classic Unjury Protein mixed in 8 oz of skim milk. Total of 16 g carbs and 29 g of protein, it will occasionally cause a spike, not often enough to make me stop.
An Atkins shake, 3 grams carb
Normally I have a poached egg, one slice of whole grain bread with margarine, a mug of hot tea with 2 oz of skim milk, a mug of hot coffee with 2 oz of 2% milk and a 2-4 oz. tomato. Occasionally I substitute oatmeal cooked in skim milk for the toast. My sugars stay within range on this meal. When I was younger or pregnant I ate more toast and two eggs.
two low carb toasts, maybe a boiled egg and some coffee.
My breakfast these days looks a lot like my other full meal of the day. Soup or stir fry or salad, most commonly, usually prepared by my husband, who has a goal of maximizing number of different plants and colors, and usually including some poultry, eggs, nuts, or another plant source of protein. My bolus is always a guess, but I do pretty well, and not being either high carb nor high anything else but maybe fiber, I’m not dealing with big numbers. Yes, we are retired, and it is usually a long meal (somewhat depending on how hard the crossword puzzle is). He sometimes adds a higher carb food like pasta or rice or toast for himself, but I tend to be so insulin insensitive in the morning, and my capacity for food often so limited, I usually don’t. But I do also usually eat some fruit after a while when my insulin has taken full effect, and will have begun drinking my half cup of cold-brewed coffee mixed with same amount of unsweetened almond milk soon after my feet-on-the-floor bolus of a unit as I, indeed, put my feet on the floor.
The mornings I’m on my own, without appealing leftovers, I might cut up or steam (or pick!) a veg or more that calls to me while I scramble an egg or cook fish, or I might mix fresh or frozen fruit, possibly vegs, and nuts in nonfat Greek yogurt. An old favorite of mine, going back to when I had places to go in the morning, is apples, green pepper, and onion in the G yogurt or back-then cottage cheese.
I don’t do a big breakfast. A cup of coffee and a Vans waffle (15gr of Carbs) plain.
Usually a soft boiled egg and blueberries or half an orange. And coffee of course!
I always have a yogurt and a coffee
Coffee, fried egg and one piece of toast. I also like coffee and 3/4 cup of Post Premier Protein cereal with fruit and some puffed rice and milk.
Coffee with tsp butter, tsp MCT oil, 3 ounce Atkins vanilla shake as creamer, pump SF Torani vanilla syrup. Every morning.
Greek yogurt and granola
Most days: 2 slices low salt Ezekiel bread, toasted, with hummus, a banana and a big salad of mixed spring greens, an apple, 1/2 cup chopped beets and 1/2 cup of “carmelized” onions (onions broiled in balsamic vinegar) which act as the dressing.
Two fried eggs, 1.5 piece of bacon, toasted english muffin, and an avocado
1.5 pieces of bacon? Not possible! I LOVE bacon!! Lol.
Most days I eat a slice of whole grain bread with P.B. and (1/2 banana or 1 tbs. jelly. or berries.) Oat meal made with milk and flaxseed and chia seeds works really well and I have that once or twice a week. If I don’t want my sugar to lower while I am doing hours of exercise after breakfast, I eat and egg and a piece of toast. Eggs generally raise my blood sugar and don’t let it come down for hours so it is a good choice for days with a lot of exercise in the morning and afternoon.
I don’t have a preference. What I eat in the morning really depends on what my body needs based on: 1) what nutrients I have eaten the last few days and 2) what my activity level is going to be.
For example, if I played 4 hours of tennis. The next day I wake up to foods with more heme and non-heme iron like spinach and eggs for muscle recovery. Today, I feel like I need more fruit so I ate raspberries and bananas for my first meal. So, it really depends on what my body needs.
Protein shake on the go or overnight oats/almond milk topped with fruit or eggs/bacon.
Generally eggs and fruit. sometimes a homemade green smoothie or wheat toast with no sugar added peanut butter when in a hurry. On weekends I typically have a full classic breakfast with eggs potatoes fruit and breakfast meat.
Eggs
A fruit, chopped up fruit, sometimes I splurge and add yogurt.
Blueberries and low carb yogurt and no sugar added cocoa by Swiss Miss. Don’t like coffee!
1/4 C homemade granola
1/4 C full-fat greek yogurt
1 tsp sugar substitute
splash of milk
Usually one of three items: fruit, Light n Fit Greek yogurt, or Premier Protein drink/shake.
Homemade muesli (oatmeal and almonds), in a mix of plain + flavored yogurt plus fruit, and coffee.
Most things you purchase are too sweet for my taste buds now.
If I am not digesting properly, I might substitute a simple cereal or have a smoothie.
Half of sandwich and maybe a vegetable and on sandwich pickles and one serving of meat generally 5 days a week
A mixture of dry cereal ( Flax Plus, Cheerios, and granola ) with blueberries and 1% milk. Followed by a few nuts and some peanut butter.
Oatmeal, oatmilk, banana or blueberries on top with cinnamon, coffee sometimes with Muscle Milk for creamer, and Memore (daily greens). Sometimes I add a scoop of peanut butter
4 year-old has scrambled egg, some kind of sausage (pork, chicken, turkey), half slice Ezekiel bread with a little peanut butter and jelly, some kind of fruit (typically clementine or half banana), milk, and vitamin
I don’t tolerate food before 11am. Too wild and unpredictable of a response!
So I start with water, while I brew coffee. I bolus for it, but can enjoy 2-3 cups black coffee with a splash of unsweetened almond milk. Slowly throughout the morning. Anything more sends me off the charts!
Sometimes I fast, sometimes I eat a low carb oatmeal. I drink coffee basically every day, it impacts me differently. It depends on the roast and of course what I put in it. I try my best to do low carb. I sometimes have those days. I use Skittles, juice boxes for my lows.
I usually eat a hot or cold bowl of cereal with banana or fruit.
I usually have coffee made at home with creamer containing sugar. It’s about 25 carbs. I don’t eat anything else for at least a couple hours.
Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries mixed into the bowl topped off with Kirkland’s (Costco brand) Ancient Grains cereal. This meal keeps me full for hours and the calcium content is good for my osteoporosis.
I eat around 6:30AM Monday through Friday.
Saturday and Sunday are around 8AM.
I eat the same meals most days. Meals can be eggs, biscuit, sausage in any combination. Also this white bread french toast with sugar free syrup.
I like to eat different foods, so I don’t get bored eating the same thing! Some of my favorites are a bowl of oatmeal (steel cut or slow cooking); Cream of Wheat made with 2% milk; zero fat, plain Greek yogurt with cut up fruit mixed in (strawberries when in season, bananah, apple, peach…), along with some Shredded Wheat, Honey Nut Cheerios, seed granola and/or another low sugar granola; or a lower carb, whole grain English muffin with nut butter or an egg and cheese. These are some favorites, but I’ll also have pancakes or a waffle made with a whole grain mix when there is time to make them!
Usually oatmeal from scratch with raisins and walnuts and honey, an orange, coffee. Alternatively, cereal or toast instead of oatmeal.
1/2 Food for Life English Muffin with almond butter
Water upon arising with Synthroid tablet, followed by a light balanced breakfast – whole grain toast with peanut or almond butter & sliced apple or a handful of fresh blueberries; or an egg & grilled veggies with whole grain toast; or oatmeal with a handful of keto nut mixture and coconut. Sometimes a greek yogurt with a bit of fresh fruit mixed in.
And coffee – usually 1 or 2 cups with milk or 1/2 & 1/2.
I’ve eaten this same breakfast for many decades. 3/4 cup Multigrain Cheerios, 1/4 cup Shredded Wheat, 1/2-3/4 cup Unsweetened Almond Milk, 8-10 fresh blueberries, 6-8 red raspberries.
I usually eat overnight oats consisting of 1/2 cup old fashion rolled oats, 1 Tbsp chia seeds, 1 Tbsp dark cocoa powder, 1 scoop protein powder (ON Gold Standard 100% Whey), 1 Tbsp chunky almond butter, 1/2 cup coconut milk, 1/2 cup of blueberries or strawberries.
Another staple is a yellow green banana with natural peanut butter.
On weekends I’ll have a serving of Kodiak carb conscious pancakes with blueberries/strawberries and sugar free pancake syrup; sometimes with peanut butter and a couple of over easy eggs.
Usually 2 slices whole grain high fiber bread with peanut butter. 2 cups coffee with milk.